The .property Domain: A Singular for a Single Asset
The .property domain entered the root zone on 15 August 2014 under an ICANN agreement dated 22 May 2014, and the present contracting party is Digital Property Infrastructure Limited; the IANA record was last updated on 16 June 2026. The extension spent its early years in the Uniregistry portfolio and is offered commercially today under the Internet Naming Co. banner.
The singular suits one property, one development or one investment asset, while portfolio sites presenting many listings together read more naturally in the plural. On 13 August 2026 the zone held 7,267 registrations with 5,320 present in the zone file. Test candidates in .property domain search and compare a housing-focused alternative on the .homes page.
The IANA contracting party for this extension is Digital Property Infrastructure Limited, it is sold commercially under the Internet Naming Co. portfolio, and its technical backend runs through a further provider. All three statements are true and none substitutes for the others. When you research who an extension belongs to, notice which question you are asking: the contracting party is the legal counterparty, the commercial brand is the name on the sales side. The plural form many assume is its sibling belongs to an entirely different company.
.PROPERTY Domain at a Glance
- Registry operator Digital Property Infrastructure Limited
- Root zone entry 15 August 2014
- Eligibility None — the agreement sets no identity-based limit
- Zone size 7,267 registrations, 5,320 in the zone file (nTLDstats, 13 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .property domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
Related Domain Extensions
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.property Domain Prices — No Surprise Fees
Registration, transfer and renewal fees are listed separately. The renewal price can differ from the first-year price, so you see both up front.
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New Registration
$59.99 /year -
Transfer
$149.99 /year -
Renewal
$164.99 /year -
Restore
$259.90 -
Late Renewal
$33.00
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Domain lock
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Domain forwarding
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Free WHOIS privacy
Your name, address and phone stay out of public WHOIS records, which cuts down spam and scam calls.
.property Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .property domain is put on Client Hold on its expiry date, so the site and e-mail stop that same day. You can still renew during the first 20 days, but from this point a late renewal fee is added on top of the renewal price. On day 20 the registration is deleted and until day 50 only a paid restore brings it back. Nothing at all can be done in the 5 days that follow, and on day 55 the name is open to anyone. There is exactly one way never to enter this chain: keep auto-renewal on.
Domain Is Available (Available)
A .property address at this stage has not been taken yet, and it goes to whoever registers first. Check the name you have in mind — if it is free, it can be yours within minutes.
Domain Is Active (Active Period)
Once registration is complete, the domain is registered to you for the term you selected. You can renew at any point before it expires to keep it active, or switch on auto-renewal so you never have to watch the date.
Renewal Window (Client Hold)
On its expiry date your .property domain is put on Client Hold: the site and e-mail go down that day, but the registration is still yours. A single renewal within these first 20 days brings everything back exactly as it was — nothing is lost. The only difference is that a $33.00 late renewal fee is now added to the renewal price; renewing before the expiry date avoids that fee entirely.
Redemption Period (Redemption / RGP)
On day 20 the registration is deleted and the 30-day redemption period that ICANN requires of every gTLD registry begins. The name is not released to anyone during this time; only you can take it back, by paying the restore fee, until day 50. That fee is far higher than a renewal — renewing on time is always the cheaper route.
Pending Delete (Pending Delete)
Once the redemption window closes too, the domain enters its final 5 days and there is no way back. Neither renewal nor restore works here; nobody — your registrar included — can return the name to you. The registry uses this window as the last hold before the name goes back into the pool.
Open to Anyone Again (Released)
On day 55 the name .property returns to the pool and anyone can register it. Sought-after names are often gone within seconds, and there is no guaranteed way to get one back. Yet staying out of this timeline is entirely in your hands: leave auto-renewal on and the expiry date will never catch you off guard.
The timeline above is the schedule Atak Domain applies and publishes. The ICANN chart you will find elsewhere shows a renewal window of up to 45 days after expiry; ICANN's policy on expired registrations (section 2.2.1) lets registrars delete an expired domain at any time, provided they disclose their policy in advance. We apply that window as 20 days and publish it here in plain sight. Full text of the policy: ICANN Expired Registration Recovery Policy
.property Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.property Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .property domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.property Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .property Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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None is. The agreement carries only the general public interest commitments and defines no identity-based eligibility test, so no agency licence, company record or proof of ownership is sought. A private owner and an institutional investor register on identical terms. Try candidates in .property domain search.
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The number of things you are naming decides. If you present one property, one development or a single investment asset, the singular reads correctly and the address meets the expectation. If you are building a portfolio site listing many entries, the plural is more natural. The two zones belong to separate companies; make the comparison on the .properties page.
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Three separate facts get conflated. The IANA contracting party is Digital Property Infrastructure Limited; the extension is offered commercially within the Internet Naming Co. portfolio; and the technical backend runs through a further provider. All three are accurate and answer different questions. If you need the legal counterparty, look at the contracting party.
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It does. On 13 August 2026 the zone held 7,267 registrations with 5,320 in the zone file, and a small zone raises the odds that a short descriptive label is still free. The trade-off is recognition: because the extension is less familiar than .com, always write the address out in full on printed material. Check a holder via whois search.
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Decide at the outset what happens to the address once the scheme sells out. Redirecting it to your main corporate site afterwards stops the address left on brochures and signage from leading nowhere. Any page with a contact or viewing-request form needs a certificate, since visitors type budget details into it. See the SSL certificate page.
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The name must be unlocked, you need the authorisation code from your current registrar, and the contact address on the record has to work. No extra eligibility review or document request applies, so the process follows the ordinary gTLD sequence. Because this extension changed hands in the past, older records sometimes carry stale contact details, so update them before you begin. Start at the domain transfer page.
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